Advances in Understanding High-Mass X-ray Binaries with INTEGRALand Future Directions

Kretschmar P, Furst F, Sidoli L, Bozzo E, Alfonso-Garzon J, Bodaghee A, Chaty S, Chernyakova M, Ferrigno C, Manousakis A, Negueruela I, Postnov K, Paizis A, Reig P, Rodes-Roca JJ, Tsygankov S, Bird AJ, Kühnel M, Blay P, Caballero I, Coe MJ, Domingo A, Doroshenko V, Ducci L, Falanga M, Grebenev SA, Grinberg V, Hemphill P, Kreykenbohm I, Kreykenbohm SS, Li J, Lutovinov AA, Martinez-Nunez S, Mas-Hesse JM, Masetti N, Mcbride VA, Neronov A, Pottschmidt K, Rodriguez J, Romano P, Rothschild RE, Santangelo A, Sguera V, Staubert R, Tomsick JA, Torrejon JM, Torres DF, Walter R, Wilms J, Wilson-Hodge CA, Zhang S (2019)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Book Volume: 86

Article Number: 101546

DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2020.101546

Abstract

High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest X-ray sources in the Milky Way, as well as in nearby Galaxies. Thanks to their highly variable emissions and complex phenomenology, they have attracted the interest of the high energy astrophysical community since the dawn of X-ray Astronomy. In more recent years, they have challenged our comprehension of physical processes in many more energy bands, ranging from the infrared to very high energies. In this review, we provide a broad but concise summary of the physical processes dominating the emission from high mass X-ray binaries across virtually the whole electromagnetic spectrum. These comprise the interaction of stellar winds with the high gravitational and magnetic fields of compact objects, the behaviour of matter under extreme magnetic and gravity conditions, and the perturbation of the massive star evolutionary processes by presence in a binary system. We highlight the role of the INTEGRAL mission in the discovery of many of the most interesting objects in the high mass X-ray binary class and its contribution in reviving the interest for these sources over the past two decades. We show how the INTEGRAL discoveries have not only contributed to significantly increase the number of high mass X-ray binaries known, thus advancing our understanding of the population as a whole, but also have opened new windows of investigation that stimulated the multi-wavelength approach nowadays common in most astrophysical research fields. We conclude the review by providing an overview of future facilities being planned from the X-ray to the very high energy domain that will hopefully help us in finding an answer to the many questions left open after more than 18 years of INTEGRAL scientific observations.

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Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA) Spain (ES) International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Switzerland (CH) University of Southampton United Kingdom (GB) Lomonosov Moscow State University / Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова Russian Federation (RU) University of Alicante / Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant Spain (ES) National Institute for Astrophysics / Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF) Italy (IT) Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany (DE) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) United States (USA) (US) University of Paris 4 - Paris-Sorbonne / Université paris IV Paris-Sorbonne France (FR) South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) South Africa (ZA) University of Geneva / Université de Genève (UNIGE) Switzerland (CH) University of California, San Diego United States (USA) (US) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) / 中国科学院 China (CN) Spanish National Research Council / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Spain (ES) Russian Academy of Sciences / Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (RAS) Russian Federation (RU) Universidad de Cantabria (UC) Spain (ES) University of California, Berkeley United States (USA) (US) University of Maryland, Baltimore County United States (USA) (US) European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) Spain (ES) University of Sharjah (UOS) / جامعة الشارقة United Arab Emirates (AE) University of Turku / Turun yliopisto Finland (FI) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Germany (DE) Dublin City University (DCU) Ireland (IE) Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) / Ίδρυμα Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας Greece (GR) Valencian International University (VIU) / Universidad Internacional de Valencia Spain (ES) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States (USA) (US) Georgia College & State University (GCSU) United States (USA) (US)

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APA:

Kretschmar, P., Furst, F., Sidoli, L., Bozzo, E., Alfonso-Garzon, J., Bodaghee, A.,... Zhang, S. (2019). Advances in Understanding High-Mass X-ray Binaries with INTEGRALand Future Directions. New Astronomy Reviews, 86. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2020.101546

MLA:

Kretschmar, Peter, et al. "Advances in Understanding High-Mass X-ray Binaries with INTEGRALand Future Directions." New Astronomy Reviews 86 (2019).

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